Poster Campaign by Silvio Teixeira

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swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium, all lowercase. every single one of these shows actually happened.

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In celebration of the centennial birthday of artist Romare Bearden, The Studio Museum of Harlem created The Bearden Project; a collection of works by contemporary artists who have been influenced and inspired by his work. Expect to see a diverse range of pieces from artists such as Lorna Simpson, Shinique Smith, and Mickalene Thomas, among many others. On The Bearden Project official website some of the featured artists share examples of their work along with a synopsis of how they were influenced by Bearden; these are great reads, especially if you can’t make it to New York City to visit the exhibition.

Annual Hilla Rebay Lecture at

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Tom McDonough
The Artist as Typographer
Wednesday, January 11, 6:30 pm

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
5th Ave at 89th St, New York City
guggenheim.org/publicprograms

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Modern typography developed in the interwar years of the 20th century as one element of the utopian project of reinventing the world, embodying a fantasy of universal legibility and literacy. After World War II, it was transformed into a tool of corporate promotion and advertising. Avant-garde and neo-avant-garde artists alike engaged in these projects, from Bauhaus design to Dada collage, and on to the work of Robert Rauschenberg and the Fluxus group. Both sides of that history seem taken up and reworked in the recent practices under scrutiny in this lecture.

Several developments laid the groundwork for the current interest in typography: the development of a critical design history during the 1980s, which placed typography within a larger cultural framework; broader shifts in culture and reading in particular, brought on by the advent of digital technologies since the 1990s; and the reassessed legacy of language-based Conceptual and post-Conceptual art practices toward a focus on the material qualities of communication.

Recent years have seen a proliferation of younger artists whose work employs typography, printed characters, or even the very institution of printing. Language has played a key role in art since the rise of Conceptual art in the early 1970s, but the current turn represents something different: it takes up not language per se, but language’s material realization and the particular histories carried within its forms. In this year’s Hilla Rebay Lecture, Tom McDonough focuses on artists and collectives whose work demonstrates how typography has become a central element of aesthetic practice, including Dexter Sinister, Shannon Ebner, Janice Kerbel, and Adam Pendleton.

The rise of the artist as typographer finds precedents in the work of Lawrence Weiner as well as Liam Gillick. But it is among artists who have emerged in the last decade that the practice is most prevalent: their work has proposed a new critical aesthetic that takes up language and its representation as a material object, heavy with social meaning.

A reception and viewing of the exhibition Maurizio Cattelan: All immediately follow the lecture.

This program is free, and there is no advance ticket registration.

The Hilla Rebay Lecture brings distinguished scholars to the Guggenheim Museum to examine significant issues in the theory, criticism, and history of art. This annual program is made possible through the generosity of The Hilla von Rebay Foundation.

For more information visit guggenheim.org/publicprograms.

Tuesday Janaury 24  | MICA Main Building 110 | 7pm-9pm

Join Yuri Long, a curator for the National Gallery and specialist in
Bauhaus publications, as he explores the relationship between
the theoretical typographic teachings of such Bauhaus
masters as Herbert Bayer and Lazlo Moholy Nagy, and the
actual, and often contradictory, results of putting their theories
into practice in both book design and commercial advertising.

Yellow Arrow is a fascinating project gaining a lot of momentum and it states that it is a new way to explore cities by publishing ideas and stories via text messaging on your mobile device and interactive maps online.

In their own words:

Yellow Arrow is a global public art project of local experiences. Combining stickers, mobile phones and an international community, Yellow Arrow transforms the urban landscape into a “deep map” that expresses the personal histories and hidden secrets that live within our everyday spaces.

Take a look and find something unexpected.  Share something special.

Journey with Alice and us “Through the Looking Glass” to the 2011 Student ADDY Awards.  We encourage all students of graphic design, advertising, photography, videography, web design,  or a related field to enter this prestigious contest.

Deadline for entries is Friday, December 17, 2010 at 5:00 pm. Student ADDY Call for Entries poster, designed by Aaron Bolton from Frederick Community College. Follow this link to read more about this competition’s requirements and deadlines.

http://www.aaffrederick.org/students/student-addys/